Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

I waited for so long To let you know What I feel For you You’re my endless dream ……..

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

As many serve the Virgin as serve God.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

Writing novels is the most exciting

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.